If you pay people peanuts, you will get monkeys.
- Andy Pearson
Notable Quotables
You can build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
- Zig Ziglar
You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be.
- Joel Olsteen
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
- Herb Kelleher
I’m never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
- Bill Gates
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
- Dale Carnegie
The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome.
- Timothy Ferriss
Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.
- Larry Ellison
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
- John C. Maxwell
Rockefeller never clarified why he dropped out of high school around May 1855, just 2 months shy of commencement, excercises on July 16…
- Ron Chernow
Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
- Warren Buffett
When you expect your employees to act like adults, they generally do. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
- Ben Horowitz
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
- Yoda
You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
- Joel Olsteen
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.
- Seth Godin
When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
- Zig Ziglar
No question about it, alot of my attitude towards money stems from growing up during a pretty hardscrabble time in our country’s history: the Great Depression.
- Sam Walton
The higher the level of leadership people want to reach, the greater the sacrifices they will have to make?
- John Maxwell
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate, And though we pass them by today, Tomorrow we may come this way And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
- Peter Thiel
[As a child] I would just question things…
- Elon Musk
The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.
- Rupert Murdoch
Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt.
- Ray Dalio
But entrepreneurs should take cultures of extreme dedication seriously.
- Peter Thiel
There is no elevator to success…you have to take the stairs.
- Zig Ziglar
I like definitive things.
- Jerry Seinfeld
Waiting isn’t easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.
- Seth Godin
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.
- George Soros
Assume employees are going across a lot of networks. So you have to build in security from the home to any number of networks.
- John Chambers
We’re living in what I like to call the ‘Thank You Economy,’ because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way – and do it authentically – are going to have a prayer of competing.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Great CEOs build exceptional strategies for gathering the required information continuously. They embed their quest for intelligence into all of their daily actions from staff meetings to customer meetings to one-on-ones. Winning strategies are built on comprehensive knowledge gathered in every interaction the CEO has with an employee, a customer, a partner, or an investor.
- Ben Horowitz
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
- Peter Drucker
We thought we ought to put that in because it’s the truth but the (like-for-like) number even with those factors taken into account is still very disappointing.
- Simon Wolfson
‘I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.
- Bill Gates
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
- Seth Godin
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.
- Howard Schultz
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
- Michael Otto
I think our main real estate effort should be directed at getting out in front of expansion and letting the population build out to us.
- Sam Walton
Don’t just park money in the bank.
- Lee Shau Kee
Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.
- Zig Ziglar
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.
- Bill Gates
Most businesses get zero distribution channels to work: poor sales rather than bad product is the most common cause of failure. If you can get just one distribution channel to work, you have a great business. If you try for several but don’t nail one, you’re finished.
- Peter Thiel
It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I’m not going to let the past destroy my future. I’m pressing on. I’m straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.
- Joel Olsteen
If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.
- Azim Premji
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy
- Jim Rohn
You must not ever think that anything is common sense.
- Clay Clark
Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
The austerity policies for the mainland property market will remain intact in 2011.
- Lee Shau Kee
It is unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money, that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing what it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot . .
- Zig Ziglar
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
- Bill Gates
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.
- Jeff Bezos
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
- Phil Knight
Why don’t we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they’d also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.
- James Simons
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
- George Soros
George W. Bush stated, I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel like I owe anybody an explanation. That’s when I knew Bush was headed for trouble. With all due respect for the office, I completely disagree with him. In my view, it’s the leader’s responsibility to explain his or her actions every step of the way. And the higher up you are, the more important it is.
- David Novak
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
- Thomas Edison
Do the Right Thing.
- Phil Knight
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
- Winston Churchill
By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.
- Zig Ziglar
When you are the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you are basically saying, ‘I’m right and everyone else is wrong.’ That’s a very unpleasant position to be in. It’s at once exhilaration and the same time an invitation to be attacked.
- Larry Ellison
Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.
- Buddha
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them…let them be your friends.
- Winston Churchill
I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.
- Alisher Usmanov
This is the day of dramatization. Merely stating a truth isn’t enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. The movies do it. Television does it. And you will have to do it if you want attention.
- Dale Carnegie
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
don’t talk about the way you are. Talk about the way you want to be.
- Joel Olsteen
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
- John C. Maxwell
If you cannot persuade people to do things, you simply will not be a success because you are not an island unto yourself. Everything in life is about persuading people to do what you want them to do.
- David Robinson
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
- Dale Carnegie
I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a might oak. The first blow may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and seem of no consequence. Yet from childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my efforts of today.
- Og Mandino
Guess Instead of Thinking.
- Napoleon Hill
If it didn’t happen in your life before, then you’re not paying attention you don’t think it’s possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.
- Ray Dalio
We will make our products work out of the box.
- Steve Ballmer
I worry about losing a real talent. I hate losing a great leader more than anything. I also hate it when I have to manager out a good person for poor performance or for simply doing something that is not in sync with our values. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life and I’ve had to do it more than once, is fire a friend.
- David Novak
Listen to everyone in your company. And figure out ways to get them talking. The folks on the front lines, the one who actually talk to the customer, are the only ones who really know what’s going on out there. You’d better find out what they know. This really is what total quality is all about. To push responsibility down in your organization, and to force good ideas to bubble within it, you must listen to what your associates are telling you.
- Sam Walton
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
- Dale Carnegie
There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
- Joel Olsteen
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.
- Aliko Dangote
Create a vision and personalize it. People need to say, I understand it, I’m excited about it, and I can make it happen.
- David Novak
Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.
- Winston Churchill
What makes a startup employee instantly distinguishable to outsiders is the branded T-shirt or hoodie that makes him look the same as his co-workers. The startup uniform encapsulates a simple but essential principle: everyone at your company should be different in the same way—a tribe of like-minded people fiercely devoted to the company’s mission.
- Peter Thiel
We all have done something unethical.
- John C. Maxwell
Top academic institutions are wonderful, but there are unrecognized benefits to not coming out of one. Grads from top schools are funneled into high-income 80-hour-per-week jobs, and 15–30 years of soul-crushing work has been accepted as the default path. How do I know? I’ve been there.
- Timothy Ferriss
This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund. This is a scary rule, because it eliminates the vast majority of possible investments. (Even quite successful companies usually succeed on a more humble scale.) This leads to rule number two: because rule number one is so restrictive, there can’t be any other rules.
- Peter Thiel
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it’s so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
- Michael Bloomberg
Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.
- Alexei Mordashov
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy — unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
- Og Mandino
We’ve got to lift our game tremendously. We’ll sell our business news and information in print, we’ll sell it to anyone who’s got a cable system, and we’ll sell it on the Web.
- Rupert Murdoch
Use what you have to get what you want.
- Jack Nadel
We’re extremely adroit at hiding our fear. Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we’re afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.
- Seth Godin
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
- Harvey Mackay
We’d love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.
- Richard Branson
His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep.
- Timothy Ferriss
I remember one time I didn’t want to spend any money on motels so we all slept in sleeping bags on the floor of one of our guys’ houses. His furniture hadn’t gotten there yet.
- Sam Walton
